Overview
Puneet Pratap Singh is the partner in charge of Heidrick & Struggles India based in the New Delhi office. He is a member of the CEO & Board of Directors Practice and the regional leadership team in Asia Pacific.
Experience
Puneet focuses on board, CEO, and top management searches in the consumer banking, FinTech, insurance, asset management, and wealth management sectors. He specializes in corporate functions in financial services, including digital, operations, and technology—three lines of finance defense programs—and human resources and finance officers, amongst others. Puneet has led several CxO hiring and India-entry strategy projects for financial services GICs in India. He also works extensively on consulting engagements in organization design, talent assessment, competitive intelligence, and business strategy.
Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles as a member of the Financial Services Practice in 2008, Puneet was a partner with a leading executive search boutique firm in India for ten years, during which he played an integral role in the firm’s turnaround and growth. He worked as a generalist across multiple sectors.
Puneet started his career in consulting with a start-up firm, where he worked with clients on compensation design, job evaluation, learning and development, and executive search.
Puneet was certified by Harvard Business School in “Changing the Game in Executive Search.” He is a Hogan graduate and completed assessment inventories from Hogan Assessment Systems, Inc.
Education
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Alumni
YALE School of Management, Alumni
University of Delhi, Bachelor of Commerce